Greetings!

It appears that you were the unfortunate victim of a Hulkageddon gank. As you may have heard, Hulkageddon V has been ongoing since April 30th, and it is well-known that thousands of Hulks and Mackinaws are destroyed during these campaigns. Exhumers are notoriously weak and the poor state of T2 hull insurance makes these ships extremely costly to lose for the victims, while extremely cheap to kill for the gankers. Additionally, an edict by The Mittani has extended Hulkageddon V indefinitely - gankers are still being paid rewards 5 months after the announcement of Hulkageddon V by Helicity Boson.

This is where I come in. I am the Goonswarm Federation director in charge of managing the Hulkageddon campaign, and I deal with selling Mining Permits. The purchase of a Permit ensures that Hulkageddon participants do not target you - should they do so, any winnings they may claim are immediately void, and your loss will be FULLY reimbursed at current Jita prices!

To purchase a Mining Permit, send this character 250 million ISK with the reason "PERMIT" and you will shortly be listed under our exemptions list (characters that Hulkageddon participants must set blue for the duration of the campaign) and any exhumer losses you incur to suicide ganks throughout the remainder of the Hulkageddon campaign will be reimbursed, provided the following conditions:

- Any losses within 4 hours of payment will NOT be reimbursed. Wait 4 hours after payment before resuming your mining! The reason for this is that gankers have some leeway to keep their contacts up to date with our spreadsheet, and cannot be expected to continuously check it.
- The loss must be in HIGH SECURITY space (0.5 security or better!) No party on your killmail may have an active war declaration against your corporation/alliance or be a member of your (non-NPC) corporation.
- Any indication of MACRO USAGE will void your request. Goonswarm Federation does not intend on supporting botters.
- Fraud will not be tolerated. Anyone suicide ganking their own exhumers to collect payouts through this plan will be denied payment.
- Only characters that send 250,000,000 ISK to "Andski" will be listed on the no-kill list! Alts are not covered, unless you send this character that same amount of ISK from those alts!

For reference, your character name will be listed on this exemption list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ag0_cKv2BUAhdHI2NHU5YVY2eERqVU9GZnhVLUJRVVE

Happy mining!

But if you think CCP's going for a serious fix anytime before now and the next 10 years.

New and exciting.

So i'm in high sec, pre inferno 1.2 of course, and my hulk in ganked. Which gets me to thinking about how would the up coming changes have saved me? My attackers were partially concorded, my hulk had a tank, but they had several destroyers. They lost t1 destroyers and probley got a payday of a few mill and some pricey loot for it. I lost a 300mill in ship/parts and got a under 80mill in insurance. In short they made out at my expense on a highsec gank.

The new barges would at best (skiff) field a 50k ehp. Ok that sounds wonderful in theory until people drop in with half a dozen destroyers and support frigs on top of that. With only a few million invested in those ships and several million to gain. But thats the BEST of the new barges the hulk is barely getting any buffs. Think this is a rare scenario? Think again, there are plenty of multi-client gankers who bring their alts to the battle.

To top it off I get this little scam mail in my mail box afterwards...




Sure there some solo gankers out there crying at CCP's new barge updates, but for the rest of the universe, there all laughing another attempt of CCP to show its manhood to the world and prove the Goons don't have free rein in high sec. Only to be weighed, measured and found wanting.

In the end only a major overhaul to how CCP handles high sec piracy will change anything. If you doubt this, stand on a gate at a trade hub and watch the same people who gank you pop past in fast frigs or pods. Or in a 0.6-0.5 and see the numerous yellow/red tags.

But if you think CCP's going for a serious fix anytime before now and the next 10 years. Remember it took CCP days to nerf an anti-goon alliance, and years to give barges a better tank. Notice a difference in priorities?

Maybe the real solution are more patches that screw up bot miners for a while. That seems to make CCP take note that miners need some attention too, and that their devs are starting to get stains on their ears the same color as the goon bat phone.

Clueless whining

Original and Refreshing!

The new barges would at best (skiff) field a 50k ehp.

f CCP to show its manhood to the world and prove the Goons don't have free rein in high sec. Only to be weighed, measured and found wanting.

Funny, the numbers I'm seeing put you about 30-35k EHP shy of where you "can" be. Granted, you're not gonna be mining a whole hell of a lot, but as with anything you have to consider "gank" (mining yield) vs. tank.

Haha! I assume OP is referring to this killmail

Two things:

1) Despite claiming that you "fit a tank", you did it poorly. Buffer, buffer, buffer. It's the only way to dissuade the majority of gankers.
2) Take solace in the fact that the idiots spent 7 Destroyers to kill you when a single Catalyst could have done the same job.

What

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Douche

You have no clue, the mail is a fake, quite clearly and you sir are a fool

Another Goon alt trying to make Goons look big and scary.

Your not

Your just another Null Sec alliance who think's you actually matter in the grand scheme of things.

Your *Burn Jita* did annoy market areas but did no lasting damage.

Crawl back into your hole.

Um... no.

The mail is real. Goons have been mailing it out regularly. Probably made some money off of it too.

Um... no.

The mail is real. Goons have been mailing it out regularly. Probably made some money off of it too.

There is blood in the water my friend and the sharks are circling.

My attackers were partially concorded, my hulk had a tank, but they had several destroyers.

Well, if you're concerned, fly a skiff with a tank. Sure, you'll lose around 25% yield from a hulk, but you'll have over 100k ehp (still gankable. But not profitably).

Ofc mate, let me tell your something about Goons, do you know why they are so big? Because anyone can say and do as they like in that alliance and the alliance heads love it.

Goons and Test, are doing well, but like BOB, there time will come and when it does, a new power will rise and kill them, utterly, for all i know plans may be moving into place to do just that. I suggest, you learn from history, CA was the power, then came BOB, then came Goons, then came Test, Test would own Goons hands down and they know it.

There is blood in the water my friend and the sharks are circling.

The same people who refuse to sacrifice yield in order to tank their barges now will be the same people refusing to fly skiffs over more efficient but weaker mining ships after the changes.

You can't patch stupid.

What

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Douche

You have no clue, the mail is a fake, quite clearly and you sir are a fool

Another Goon alt trying to make Goons look big and scary.

Your not

Your just another Null Sec alliance who think's you actually matter in the grand scheme of things.

Your *Burn Jita* did annoy market areas but did no lasting damage.

Crawl back into your hole.

insinuating someone is wounded.